At first sight, the paintings of Hilde Goossens can strike
the viewer as fleeting, sketchy and tachistic compositions: a
world of paint, stain, gesture and movement, brushed briskly
across the canvas in a pale saturated color palette of warm,
monotone blue-gray, ocher brown and moss-green hues. These broken
colors rival with recessed whites and grays, creating a rhythmic
game of visual concentrations that not only emphasize the
permanent light, but also the evocative sense of space and
atmosphere that is almost literally airy. Her figuration is rooted
in a surreal imagery - alienation and an immense silence -however,
she has a romantic melancholic slant in tone and in a radically
realistic idiom. The anonymous man in the crowd. Volatility and
tranquility clash theatrically like two mischievous riders.
Fascinated by the current visual culture, she rearranges these
incentives to images from the ordinary, the strange, the
unbearable and the impossible. A pictorial game that simply relies
on the power of her imagination and craft skill to evoke emotions
and moods.